Meeting Minutes February 18, 2015

Meeting Minutes Form
Record of Meeting of South County Toastmasters – # 1957
Meeting Date: February 18, 2015
Called to order at: 7:00 p.m.
Location: MetLife Building
Presiding officer: Jim Bubash
Greeter: Lauren Ritter
Invocator: Carl Hendrickson
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Officers’ Reports: none
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Committee Reports:
Steve Bettag: International Speech Contest & Evaluation contest is two weeks away. Sign up sheet will be passed around. Vote counters and timers will be needed, please sign up for those roles too. To speak in the international speech contest you must have completed 6 manual speeches to participate and for the evaluation contest there is no minimum in order to participate.
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Old Business: none
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New Business:
Susan McConnell:
Requests reimbursements for materials purchased for new member items for a total of $128.60. Seconded by Jack Bettag. Voted: Passed
Moves to induct two new members this evening; Joe Brach and Adam Jackson. Both members are inducted into South County Toastmasters. Joe Brach’s mentor is Jack Bettag and Adam Jackson’s mentor is Dave Domian.
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Correspondence & Announcements:
Matt Ramshaw: Presented a book signed by South County Toastmasters to Steve Winheim for his service as president of the club.
Jim Bubash: The security guard will be performing at the Tavern of Fine Arts on March 17. He will be singing Irish Tunes.
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Toastmaster: Jerry Paul                 Theme: Presidential
Grammarian: Steve Winheim               Word: Uniform
Time Keeper: Vamsi Jammalamadaka
Vote Counter: Judy Sowers
Ah Counter: George Kiser
Camera Op: Carol Lindwedel
Table Topics: Jim Salih
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Speakers and Evaluators
Speaker 1: Brian Ettling
Evaluator 1: Matt Ramshaw
Speaker 2: Lauren Ritter
Evaluator 2: Dick Shields
Speaker 3: Jack Carter
Evaluator 3: Leon Sewkarran
Speaker 4:  Bill Collier
Evaluator 4: Dave Domian
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General Eval: Alan Kirby
Joke Master: Susan Carrillo

VOTING
Most Improved: Leon Sewkarran
Best Table Topics: Dave Domian
Best Evaluator: Dave Domian
Best Speaker: Jack Carter

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Meeting Rating: A               Meeting adjourned at: 9:00

TM in attendance:
Jack Bettag
Steve Bettag
Joe Brach
Jim Bubash
Tim Budd
Susan Carrillo
Jack Carter
Bill Collier
Dave Domian
Brian Ettling
Carl Hendrickson
Adam Jackson
Vamsi Jammalamadaka
Alan Kirby
George Kiser
Carol Lindwedel
Susan McConnell
Jason Murphy
Rob Osbourne
Jerry Paul
Jim Salih
Matt Ramshaw
Lauren Ritter
Leon Sewkarran
Dick Shields
Judy Sowers
Steve Winheim
Rob Van Winkle

Guests: none

Total  28; Toastmasters 28, and Guests 0